Raúl Ruiz Movies

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero...

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility,...

A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea....

Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul...

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince...

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment...

A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than...

Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music...

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

The life of a right-wing housewife in Chile during the prior days to Salvador Allende's military overthrow.

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".

The house of the director has a door out to the sidewalk. This gate separates the inside from the outside. The interior contains the filmmaker's...

A documentary on the exiled Chilean painter Sotelo which focuses on the painter's voice rather than the paintings themselves.